The Idea of Central Europe: Geopolitics, Culture and Regional Identity

Cover\nHalf-title\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nList of Figures\nPreface\n1. Introduction: The Puzzle of Central Europe\n	The emerging puzzle\n	The pivot of geopolitics?\n	Approaching Central Europe\n2. Germany: Mitteleuropa–Realm of the German Nation\n	The narrative of German Central Europe\n	Shifting identities: from Germany to Central Europe\n	Nationalist dream or pragmatic customs union?\n	Friedrich Naumann and wartime concepts\n	Unsuccessful agitators vs. unimpressed government\n	A tale of wartime Mitteleuropa\n	Central Europe in German imperial policy\n3. Austria-Hungary: Pan-German Paper Dreams\n	The legacy of 1848: Austria goes its own way\n	The pan-German movement\n	The Belvedere Circle\n	The pan-German revival\n	Central Europe the Austrian way\n	Challengers: from Kramár to Masaryk\n	A winding path to a dead end\n	Strength and weakness of the other\n4. Britain and the United States: What the Enemy Covets\n	‘Seat of war’\n	Shifting threat perceptions\n	The Foreign Office and Masaryk’s dismemberment plan\n	The view from across the Atlantic: the Inquiry\n	The stillborn mid-European Union of 1918\n	The construction of the other\n5. Central Europe 1880–1918: Unsuccessful Exercises in Geopolitics\n	The battle for definition\n	Central Europe equals pan-German Europe\n	Central Europe in policy-makers’ minds\n	Smart propaganda that failed\n6. Variations in Time and Space\n	Interwar discourse: from Danubian Federation to Reich, 1919 – 39\n	World War II: return of the Middle Tier, 1939 – 45\n	Cold War: a non-existent concept, 1945 – 84\n	Breaking ice: the anti-politics of Central Europe, 1984 – 9\n	A brand new game: integration tautology, 1989 – 2004\n	The ebbs and flows of theorizing\n7. Conclusions: Central Europe and Beyond\n	The forging of Central Europe\n	Central Europe is back. Again!\n8. Postscript: Beyond Central Europe\nAppendix 1. ‘Tshirschky to Bethmann-Hollweg’, 1 September 1914\nNotes\nIndex